-The Hindu Business Line Value of Banknotes in circulation increased to Rs 18.03 lakh crore as at end-March 2018 Mumbai: Close to 99.40 per cent of specified Bank notes (SBNs) of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations, which were scrapped in the November-December 2016 period, have been returned from circulation, according to the Reserve Bank of India's annual report. The report pegged the total SBNs returned from circulation at Rs 15.31 lakh crore....
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Crunch time for 70 companies as RBI's NPA deadline ends
-The Hindu Business Line After Allahabad HC rebuff, power firms look for govt lifeline Mumbai: About 70 companies with a combined debt of approximately ?3.6-lakh crore face insolvency proceedings, with the deadline imposed by the Reserve Bank of India ending on Monday. These companies did not get any legal relief as the Allahabad High Court declined to stay the RBI’s February circular instructing Banks to take all large accounts above ?2,000 crore...
More »Kerala floods: Man-made or nature's fury? -TV Jayan
-The Hindu Business Line The rejection of the the Gadgil panel report, by all the six States along the Western Ghats, has proved to be a costly error The floods of catastrophic dimensions that ravaged Kerala recently have brought into sharp focus the all-round ecological destruction caused by human interference in the State’s hilly terrains. The fact that there were 12 major landslides and hundreds of minor ones within a fortnight in the...
More »Mudra loans a big scandal in Banking system
-Deccan Chronicle The managers used a part of the 60 per cent amount to repay the Mudra loan for a year and pocketed the rest. New Delhi: The Modi government may have to get battle ready soon for cleaning up the Mudra loan mess that has added to the concerns of the Banking system. The plan to create “job creators and not job seekers” by disbursing massive credit to micro and small...
More »Cong piles Gujarat firm heat on Modi
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Congress on Monday demanded that the State Bank of India declare the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Bankrupt as it sought to puncture holes into "dream merchant" Narendra Modi's "Mr Clean" image, armed with an RBI circular on Resolution of Stressed Assets. Senior party leader Jairam Ramesh said the February 12 Reserve Bank circular mandated that any company that owed more than Rs 2,000 crore to Banks on...
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